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This article is about the Shadowlands feature. For the Scourge structure in the Ghostlands, see Tower of the Damned. For the quest of the same name, see N [58-60] Torghast, Tower of the Damned.
Torghast, Tower of the Damned
TTD
Torghast concept
Art of Torghast
Location Center of the Maw
Instance info
Type Infinite dungeon
Advised level 60
Player limit 5
Bosses

Template:Torghast, Tower of the Damned

Torghast, Tower of the Damned is an infinite dungeon in World of Warcraft: Shadowlands that can be played by 1 to up to 5 players. It sits at the center of the Maw.

Torghast is an endlessly replayable, ever-changing dungeon that you can challenge alone or in a group. Your runs will differ each time, but you’ll need to explore cautiously. Death comes at a terrible cost. Defeat enough of Torghast's unpredictable challenges, and you’ll be rewarded with unique abilities and items to ensure your present survival or bolster your next run. The further you progress, the greater your likelihood of retrieving materials to craft the legendary weapons and armor that will help you restore balance to the Shadowlands.[1]

History

Once, the Jailer kept only the most dangerous souls in the cosmos confined in this eternal prison. Now, some of Azeroth's greatest heroes are trapped here, and you'll need to rescue them from the Jailer's tower before he expends their very souls.[1]

Gaining access and storyline

Baine captured in Torghast

Baine, captured

Torghast is unlocked through a quest chain, started by Bolvar Fordragon in Oribos. Max-level players must first pledge themselves to one of the Covenants and complete the first chapter of their covenant campaign, at which point they will be offered N [60] The Highlord Calls, a breadcrumb back to Bolvar in Oribos.

For alts, access to Torghast is on an account-wide basis. Unlock access on one character and all subsequent characters will gain access after reaching level 60.

The campaign covers freeing some of the characters that were left behind and unlocking the Runecarver.

  1. N [60] The Highlord Calls
  2. N [60] Into Torghast
  3. N [60] The Search for Baine
  4. N [60] Prison of the Forgotten
  5. N [60] Deep Within
  6. N [60] Reawakening
  7. N [60] A Damned Pact
  8. N [60] A Grave Chance
  9. N [60] The Weak Link
    • Optional side chain to unlock Runecrafting:
    N [60] Ashes of the Tower, N [60] The Final Pieces, One of: N Tailoring [60] The Vessels of the Thread, N Leatherworking [60] The Vessels of Leather and Bone, N Blacksmithing [60] The Vessels of Metal, N Jewelcrafting [60] The Vessels of Jewels
Removed from game The subject of this section was removed from World of Warcraft in patch 9.1.0.
  1. N [60] Explore Torghast
  2. N [60] Remnants of Hope
  3. N [60] Information for a Price
  4. N [60] Torment Chamber: Jaina
  5. N [60] Finding a Witness
  6. N [60] Lest the Trail Go Cold
  7. N [60] Torment Chamber: Thrall
  8. N [60] Signs of the Lion
  9. N [60] The Captive King

Basic mechanics

Anima Cell

An anima cell

A normal Torghast run is comprised of six floors, with increasingly powerful enemies on higher floors.

Found or dropped anima cells unlock anima powers, which can drastically change how runs are played out, by unlocking some temporary abilities.

Souls can be freed, and will stack an untimed +1% primary stat (agility/intellect/stamina) buff for the duration of the run.

Friendly NPCs will offer optional side quests near the beginning of a floor, asking players to find another friendly NPC or an object near the end of a floor, or kill a specific enemy, and will award an anima cache on completion.

Treasure chests can occasionally be found, and will need to be opened with three keys found elsewhere in the floor, or via solving lever puzzles.

Wings, layers, and floors

Torghast level selection

The layer selection interface for Coldheart Interstitia

Torghast is divided into six primary wings, with eight layers of six floors per layer. All wings play similarly, but each wing has it's own twist on a mechanic.

A normal Torghast run is of a single six-floor layer. Floors have the following pattern:

  1. Baseline enemy set with a floor boss
  2. Stronger enemy set with a floor boss
  3. Break room, no enemies, a broker vendor
  4. Even stronger enemy set with a floor boss
  5. Strongest enemy set with a floor boss
  6. Broker vendor and layer boss

Each floor raises the difficulty incrementally by increasing enemy health, the mix of enemies spawned, the size of spawn packs, and the damage enemies deal. Higher layers raise the difficulty even further.

Players must complete a run on any given layer to unlock the next. The layer-unlocking carries over between the six primary wings. For instance, once players complete layer five in Skoldus Halls, they will be able to attempt layer six in Skoldus or any of the other wings, like Coldheart Interstitia. However, the layer-unlocking does not apply to the Twisting Corridors, which keeps track of it's own layer unlocks.

As an example of the difficulty scaling, for a solo player, a Mawsworn Sentry on layer one has the following health values:

Layer Floor Health
1 1 6,552
1 5 9,828
1 17 39,724
2 1 8,181
2 5 12,272

The Jailer's Chains

Broker Ve'ken refuge

Broker Ve'ken's refuge

Outside of very few exceptions, players are prevented from adjusting their equipment, talents, or specializations while on a run. The exceptions include at the entrance of the first floor, and near the broker on the third floor, who provides Refuge of the Damned:

Spell winston bubble Refuge of the Damned — You may change your Equipment, Talents and Specialization while in this area. Enemies have a harder time detecting you. Suppresses the effects of Torment of the Tower and The Jailer's Chains.

Phantasma and brokers

Inv phantasma [Phantasma] is the Torghast-specific currency. Most mobs and ashen phylacteries will drop some Phantasma, which can then be traded in to brokers Ve'ken and Ve'nott on floors three and six for a selection of anima powers. Phantasma cannot be carried over between runs, and will be lost should players exit Torghast prematurely or end their runs normally after defeating the layer boss.

Brokers offer a selection of anima powers, and some special items, not all of which are available on each broker, including:

Anima powers

Anima Hoard - Choice

A choice of powers

Anima powers are gained by interacting with anima caches that can be found scattered about, either just spawned out in the open, dropped by mobs, rewarded from completing bonus objectives, or found in treasure chests or selected ashen phylacteries. Each selected power will modify the rest of the run. Many powers can be stacked, increasing the effect of the power.

There are hundreds of unique anima powers. Common powers are available to all players (straight stat or health increases like Ability demonhunter demonspikes2 [Obleron Spikes], or general powers like Sha spell shadow shadesofdarkness [Curious Miasma]), while others are class- or spec- based (like Inv weapon shortblade 52 [Dimensional Blade]: Spell arcane blink [Blink] through a Mawrat to kill it instantly and gain bonus Blink charges), and there are covenant-based powers as well (like Inv misc cutgemnormal5 [Strigidium]: your summoned steward can heal or buff you in combat).

Anima powers can also synergize with previously-selected anima powers. For instance, mages can select Inv boot cloth raidmagemythic q 01 [Everwarm Socks] to move while under an Spell frost frost [Ice Block], then they can later choose Ability mage deepfreeze [Creeping Freeze], which freezes enemies that are near the mage while it moves when Ice Blocked.

Deaths

The Tarragrue

The Tarragrue

Players (or the party) are allotted a set amount of deaths per run, starting with five for solo players and scaling up to 15 for a party of five. These deaths are spread across the party, and not that each player has fifteen deaths each. Once the death counter reaches zero, the very next death will trigger a 30-second timer. Once that timer expires, The Tarragrue spawns at the beginning of the floor and slowly walks all the way to the exit.

The tarragrue will one-shot any players it comes across. Should the entire party die or the tarragrue reach the end of the floor, the run will end and the Jailer will eject players from the tower. Drop everything and get to the end of the floor to continue the run, but be warned that more deaths will spawn another tarragrue on the next floor.

Soul ash

Layer Ash
1 15
2 10
3 5
4 5
5 5
6 4
7 4
8 4

Once per week, layer bosses will drop Inv soulash [Soul Ash], with the amount increasing based on the layer cleared. Soul ash is used by the Runecarver to make legendary equipment. Only the six normal wing bosses will drop Soul Ash - bosses in the Twisting Corridors or any quest-specific wings will not have any Ash to loot.

In an effort to not force players to run every layer in a wing, they can skip back to that layer in future runs. The end boss will drop all soul ash from lower layers. Thus, if players skip to layer 4 for their first run of a week, they will loot 35 Soul Ash from the wing boss, as seen in the table to the left. Afterwards, should the player clear layer 5 of the same wing, they will come up with 4 more Soul Ash.

Torments

Starting in layer three, torments will be added to the mix. The effect increases on every floor (with the exception of the break room on floor three). So, if an enemy has +5% health on floor 1, it will have +25% health on floor six. Torments include:

  • Sha ability rogue bloodyeye Torment: Eye of Skoldus — Skoldus' Eye is upon the target, calling forth Mawsworn Seekers every 40 sec while the target is not in combat. These minions have 10% increased health. This effect stacks.
  • Inv weapon shortblade 76 Torment: Fracturing Forces — The Fracture Chambers seeks out new prey, calling forth a Mawsworn Shadestalker every 30 sec while the target is not in combat. These minions have 10% increased health. This effect stacks.
  • Ability mage fierypayback Torment: Soulforge Heat — Oppressive heat from the Soulforges inflicts 1% of the target's maximum health in Fire damage every 5 sec. This effect stacks.
  • Spell frost coldhearted Torment: Breath of Coldheart — The empowering breath of the Coldheart Interstitia increases enemy maximum health by 5%. This effect stacks.
  • Spell animamaw debuff Torment: Mort'regar's Echoes — Remnants of Mort'regar increase enemy Magic damage done by 3%. This effect stacks.
  • Spell animamaw buff Torment: Might of the Upper Reaches — The might of the Upper Reaches increases enemy Physical damage done by 3%. This effect stacks.

Wings

Initially, players must complete the tutorial wing, Arkoban Hall, then a selection of two wings are made available each week. Late in the primary quest line, players will unlock access to the Twisting Corridors, a special challenge mode wing, which is always accessible from then on.

Skoldus Hall

Skoldus Hall

Skoldus Hall

Skoldus Hall is the baseline version of Torghast.

Enemies include:

Fracture Chambers

The Fracture Chambers hold champions of covenants that can be freed and will fight alongside players.

Soulforges

In the lava and fire-filled Soulforges, the souls found here have been partially bound into armor. Players can choose to finish the binding ritual, gaining a stacking +10% crit damage/healing and +10% haste buff for three minutes, or they can be freed as normal.

Coldheart Interstitia

The special mechanic of Coldheart Interstitia is the Dissonant Bells. Interact with them to gain one of several kiss/curse buffs, some of which are best avoided for solo players without self-healing, either natively or via anima powers. Watch out for the ambushing kyrian.

Mort'regar

In Mort'regar, the corpses of most mobs slowly spread Death Pools that do not despawn. Take care to avoid killing them in invenient spots.

The Upper Reaches

In the initial quest chain, the Upper Reaches represents a significant difficulty jump, as the floors are filled with elites, but with many of them dropping Anima Caches as well.

Twisting Corridors

For players seeking cosmetic rewards, the Twisting Corridors will stitch together three wings of layers for a total of 18 floors (six per wing), with the usual break rooms on the third floor and a boss on the sixth. No Inv soulash [Soul Ash] will be found here. In a small concession to run time, floors are generally much smaller than in normal wing runs; usually a small or medium-sized room per floor.

Bosses

Quests

Players are directed to Torghast several times in the Shadowlands campaign. The first time is late in the Revendreth storyline when Prince Renathal, freed from a cage in the Maw sneaks himself, the Maw Walker, and his enchanted sword into Torghast during N [58-60] Torghast, Tower of the Damned to free some more allies.

Later, after players have joined their covenant, the second chapter of their covenant campaign will send them to Torghast multiple times to be introduced to the wings and to free some Azerothian champions. Additionally, they will unlock access to the Runecarver, who will create and upgrade legendary items over the course of the expansion.

Souls and other inhabitants

Bound Soul Remnant

Bound Soul Remnant

Soul Cages

Two Soul Cages holding Tormented Soul Remnants

Tortured Souls are a common sight in Torghast - Once freed, they will give the last of their strength in the form of the buff Soul Remnant's Blessing, which increases agility/intellect/strength by 1% per soul saved in Torghast.

Such souls include:

Other captured characters

Other characters have been captured, and part of the storyline is freeing them, including:

Captured souls and bonus objectives

Captured souls offer a bonus objective, and after completing it, can become the Maw Walker's follower in their covenant sanctum for Adventures:

NPC Bonus objective Follower quest
Ashraka N [60B] Ashraka's Intelligence N [60] Champion: Ashraka
Ayeleth the Deprived N [60] Ayeleth's Hunger Champion: Ayeleth the Deprived
Blisswing N [60] Blisswing's Rescue N [60] Champion: Blisswing
IconSmall Kyrian Male Calix N [60] Help Calix find Amethia
Chalkyth N [60] Chalkyth's Saber N [60] Champion: Chalkyth
IconSmall Human Male Croman N [60B] The Riddle of Death N [60] Champion: Croman
Dug Gravewell N [60] Dug's Missing Shovel Champion: Dug Gravewell
Duskleaf N [60] Duskleaf's Revenge N [60] Champion: Duskleaf
Gallath N [60] Gallath's Bell
Gorgelimb N [60] Champion: Gorgelimb
Hala N [60] Hala's Sword Champion: Hala
IconSmall Faerie Indigo N [60] Help Indigo find Penthia
Indri the Treesinger N [60] Indri's Flute
Ispiron N [60B] Spare Parts Champion: Ispiron
Kaletar N [60] Kaletar's Freedom Champion: Kaletar the Mender
Karynmwylyann N [60] Karynmwylyann's Roots N [60] Champion: Karynmwylyann
Kythekios N [60] Kythekios' Memory Stone Champion: Kythekios
Lloth'wellyn N [60] Lloth'wellyn's Breakthrough N [60] Champion: Lloth'wellyn
IconSmall Gnoll Meatball N [60B] Meatball's Revenge N [60] Champion: Meatball
Moriaz the Red N [60] Help Moriaz find Buttons
Molako N [60] Molako's Freedom Champion: Molako
Nerith Darkwing N [60] Nerith's Vengeance Champion: Nerith Darkwing
Bloodletter Phantoriax N [60] Phantoriax's Warsword
Rattlebag N [60] Rattlebag's Lost Armor Champion: Rattlebag
IconSmall Venthyr Male Renavyth N [60] Renavyth's Medallion
IconSmall Venthyr Male Sawn N [60B] Help Sawn find Varrik
Stonehuck N [60] Stonehuck's Sinstone Champion: Stonehuck
Talethi N [60B] Talethi's Desire N [60] Champion: Talethi
IconSmall Steward Telethakas N [60] Telethakas' Revenge Champion: Telethakas
Teliah N [60] Teliah's Stolen Spear Champion: Teliah
IconSmall Venthyr Female Thela Soulsipper N [60] Thela's Memory Stone N [60] Champion: Thela Soulsipper
Velkein N [60B] Velkein's Blade N [60] Champion: Velkein
Xertora N [60] Xertora's Construct Champion: Xertora
Yira'lya N [60] Champion: Yira'lya

Notes

  • As shown in the Shadowlands cinematic, the spire of Torghast points directly at the spire of Icecrown Citadel, implying a connection between the two structures. Moreover, according to the Shadowlands presentation at BlizzCon, Thorghast's interior also "definitely calls upon the architecture that we saw in Icecrown Citadel, and elsewhere",[2] and concept art for Torghast directly describes it as the source of Icecrown Citadel architecture.[3]
  • Both Frostmourne and the Helm of Domination were made at the Forge of Domination[4] within Torghast.[3]

Gallery

Patch changes

References

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